| A big month - Preview 21:57 - Dec 31 with 7886 views | Northernr |
A Happy New Year to you all, thank you for all the kind comments both on here and at games recently.
Sorry if I've been an overly grumpy bstrd, even by my standards, lately. It's always a tough and lonely time of year for me, one where my workload actually goes up rather than down, and QPR just have a habit of chucking one of those Millwall grenades into the mix. I remember them getting down 3-0 by Liverpool in one of those mid-Christmas New Year fixtures once and me basically sticking a 10,000 word diatribe up about everything that was wrong with the club which made my look a right obnoxious little twt.
Thank you to everybody who posts on here. The message board is the life of the site, without it it's just me yelling into the ether. I think by and large it's a great tone and level of debate on here. Do try not to smash each other up over bloody Israel and Palestine - it's a football message board guys, you're not going to achieve anything here other than winding yourselves up.
A special thanks to anybody who's got a Patreon sub. The half season review went down well, we'll be doing more of those. Hopefully next one at the end of the transfer window - suggestions for guests welcome. You have no idea how much that support has saved my life over the last couple of years, and the site definitely wouldn't exist without it. Well, it might, but I wouldn't be running it.
If I've said something daft or written something or got it wrong or whatever, forgive me. It's hard writing tired, which I am most of the time at this time of year. It's hard writing about a club that loses two of every three games and wins barely one in five. It's hard doing 48 previews and reports in the best of times and these aren't the best of times. Please know it always comes from a good place, of trying to be a bit different, produce interesting content, hopefully make a few people laugh.
Let's hope 2024 is a bit better. Have a match preview on me...
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| A big month - Preview on 23:03 - Dec 31 with 6757 views | Hooparoo |
Happy new year Clive. Thanks for everything you do. Reading your reports and all the banter on here makes it much easier to be an R on the far side of the world. One of these days I’ll be in London again and I hope I get the chance to buy you a beer and shake your hand. Good man yourself.
Much respect from Brisbane 😎 |  |
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| A big month - Preview on 23:26 - Dec 31 with 6716 views | sprocket |
Thanks Clive. No idea how you do it but I'm very grateful you do |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 23:34 - Dec 31 with 6695 views | PunteR |
Respect Clive. Roll on the summer. |  |
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| A big month - Preview on 23:38 - Dec 31 with 6680 views | hantssi |
Cheers for all your hard work Clive it’s much appreciated by those who don’t get to HQ all that often.
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| A big month - Preview on 23:51 - Dec 31 with 6638 views | eastside_r |
Cheers Clive.
I don’t know what I would do without this site. The perfect accompaniment for the lunacy that is supporting this QPR.
THank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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| A big month - Preview on 00:49 - Jan 1 with 6524 views | Noelmc |
Happy New Year Clive. Hope 2024 is a good one for you
Thanks for the preview and all the hard work during the year. It’s very much appreciated. |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 00:50 - Jan 1 with 6517 views | Loftgirl |
| A big month - Preview on 23:03 - Dec 31 by Hooparoo |
Happy new year Clive. Thanks for everything you do. Reading your reports and all the banter on here makes it much easier to be an R on the far side of the world. One of these days I’ll be in London again and I hope I get the chance to buy you a beer and shake your hand. Good man yourself.
Much respect from Brisbane 😎 |
Seconded, from Redcliffe. |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 00:50 - Jan 1 with 6521 views | loneranger1 |
Just to echo what others say and you've heard a million times before - but thank you.
Am a proper lurker, would post more but find it hard enough to keep up with reading all the interesting Rangers threads as well as all your previews, reports, and the the patreon content. And keeping up with all of life's demands!
I don't know how you do it, but the content's always gold and always worth the time (and small Patrón subs!).
Let's hope it's a better 2024, for you and Rs, starting tomorrow. Will be there in hope if not expectation | | | |
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| A big month - Preview on 01:02 - Jan 1 with 6500 views | Burnleyhoop |
We won 8 games throughout the entirety of 2023, un fooking believable 😬😳
At least we are still here and posting and that Clive, is down to you and you alone.
Surely 2024 must get better. A win tomorrow would be a good start. All the best for the New Year as it can’t possibly be any worse than the last one…can it? | | | |
| A big month - Preview on 01:31 - Jan 1 with 6464 views | KerryE |
Thank you | | | |
| A big month - Preview on 09:47 - Jan 1 with 6055 views | londonscottish |
Happy New Year Clive |  |
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| A big month - Preview on 10:17 - Jan 1 with 5981 views | AshteadR |
Happy New Year Clive. On my way to the game. Keep up the great work. This is genuinely one of the very best parts of being a QPR supporter. | | | |
| A big month - Preview on 10:51 - Jan 1 with 5895 views | nix |
It's pretty amazing that any of us are still here supporting the club home and even away, given the year we've had on the pitch and for many of us off the pitch too.
We must be equal parts stubborn, crazy and even possibly hopeful to still believe. The community we have here keeps us all connected to the club, the fans if not the players...
You remain a big part of what makes QPR something worth being involved with Clive, that and the crazies on this MB. I have occasionally had to keep away this year because of stuff going on for me and my friends combined with (largely understandable) melt-downs on here that I just couldn't deal with at the same time. The fact you manage to keep reading it all and producing such great content when you have your own stuff going on is nothing short of amazing.
The patreon is a bargain and I hope people start and continue to support it if they can afford to.
Let's all have a good 2024. |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 10:58 - Jan 1 with 5880 views | terryb |
Thanks Clive & a Happy New Year to everyone.
I wish I could join all of you at The Bush today, but the bus replacement service between Witham & Billericay is something I'm not up to at present. It's probably a good job that it's in place, as otherwise I might have been stupid enough to attend when I shouldn't!
Hopefully, I will find a stream to watch my team magically find a goal or two in their repertoire. No, I know not how!
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| A big month - Preview on 11:29 - Jan 1 with 5802 views | ThGrimRanger |
thanks Clive, please keep up the good work, it’s very much appreciated / required. supporting this club is hard but this site makes it bearable |  |
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| A big month - Preview on 11:38 - Jan 1 with 5757 views | ericgen34 |
Happy new year to you and thanks so much for the site. I genuinely don't think I could live without it! |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 11:52 - Jan 1 with 5688 views | Philothesuperhoop |
Thanks for all you do Clive. I love this site and read every word!
Supporting Rangers wouldn’t be the same without it….and 95% of the time I agree with you and also often laugh out loud!
I loved your comments about Dykes post Millwall. I was standing next to a bloke at Millwall who I’ve not had the ‘pleasure’ of meeting before who constantly banged on about how good Dykes was and that we don’t give him service. It was like he was watching a different game. I just wish I could send him your comments since…they have reaffirmed that I wasn’t going mad!
Happy New Year. Have fun. |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 12:12 - Jan 1 with 5622 views | horshamHoop |
| A big month - Preview on 11:52 - Jan 1 by Philothesuperhoop |
Thanks for all you do Clive. I love this site and read every word!
Supporting Rangers wouldn’t be the same without it….and 95% of the time I agree with you and also often laugh out loud!
I loved your comments about Dykes post Millwall. I was standing next to a bloke at Millwall who I’ve not had the ‘pleasure’ of meeting before who constantly banged on about how good Dykes was and that we don’t give him service. It was like he was watching a different game. I just wish I could send him your comments since…they have reaffirmed that I wasn’t going mad!
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Happy New year Clive,
I have been on here for a while now but do not post or contribute much as don't go to that many games and therefore don't feel I have the right to comment.
I think your writing is class whether intuitive, honest, amusing, downbeat, balanced or whatever - well worth subscribing for.
Happy New year..... | | | |
| A big month - Preview on 12:23 - Jan 1 with 5592 views | Addinall |
| A big month - Preview on 10:58 - Jan 1 by terryb |
Thanks Clive & a Happy New Year to everyone.
I wish I could join all of you at The Bush today, but the bus replacement service between Witham & Billericay is something I'm not up to at present. It's probably a good job that it's in place, as otherwise I might have been stupid enough to attend when I shouldn't!
Hopefully, I will find a stream to watch my team magically find a goal or two in their repertoire. No, I know not how!
COME ON MY TEAM [Post edited 1 Jan 10:59]
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| A big month - Preview on 12:33 - Jan 1 with 5547 views | Paddyhoops |
| A big month - Preview on 01:02 - Jan 1 by Burnleyhoop |
We won 8 games throughout the entirety of 2023, un fooking believable 😬😳
At least we are still here and posting and that Clive, is down to you and you alone.
Surely 2024 must get better. A win tomorrow would be a good start. All the best for the New Year as it can’t possibly be any worse than the last one…can it? |
We Need 8 more to stay up. Yikes | | | |
| A big month - Preview on 13:25 - Jan 1 with 5398 views | danehoop |
Happy New Year Clive!
You have the patience of a saint. |  |
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| A big month - Preview on 13:53 - Jan 1 with 5320 views | BathRanger |
Happy New Year to you and all here on LFW too. Hopefully 2024 will bring an improvement in results!
Don't post often but would like to reiterate what others have said. Thank you so much for all your hard work and brilliant writing. It really is second to none and really appreciated. The Patreon subscription is worth every penny to help keep this site going, and hopefully AKUTRs too.
Thanks again. |  | | |
| A big month - Preview on 14:02 - Jan 1 with 5275 views | Damo1962 |
Happy new year and thanks from here in Northern Ireland Clive. There is a Peroni with your name on it when I finally get to shake your hand one day soon👍👍 | | | |
| A big month - Preview on 14:04 - Jan 1 with 5285 views | Antti_Heinola |
Echo everyone else - thanks so much Clive for this fantastic site and your peerless writing on our favourite subject (QPR, not sex metaphors).
Just picking up on your DoF thoughts. I am very happy with Marti and despite recent results I think he’s done a great job so far. But I too believe a DoF or Sporting Director needs to happen as a matter of urgency for a couple of reasons.
First, relegation is likely. We are improved but we can’t score and have no money. If that were to happen, we’d see many of those OOC players leave. We’d need an overhaul. Now I’d trust Marti with this: but I also do not think he’d stick around for League One. He’s a good coach, and won’t be short of offers here, in Scandinavia and elsewhere. I don’t think he’ll want to waste a year of his career in the third tier. It makes no sense at all for him. So it’s vital that we have a DoF in place to plan for the huge difficulties relegation will bring, and to have a strong idea of who would replace Marti should he leave.
Second, if we were to stay up, Marti will have been the main reason. If we look at his career, while he’s not another Beale, he has not spent long at any club. He feels like a man in a hurry with lots of ambition. Great for us in the short term. Maybe not in the long term. So, as above, we need a DoF in now so that if we stay up, they can plan together and when Marti does go, maybe a year later, maybe two, the shock isn’t like it was when Beale left.
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| A big month - Preview on 18:58 - Jan 1 with 5049 views | Mick_S |
| A big month - Preview on 14:02 - Jan 1 by Damo1962 |
Happy new year and thanks from here in Northern Ireland Clive. There is a Peroni with your name on it when I finally get to shake your hand one day soon👍👍 |
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